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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Voices of Chinese Canadian Women '. Page 13 of the introduction to these 236 pages (gathered from some 130 interviews), speaks to some recurring themes : identity, marriage,parents, education, sexism and racism - though these latter two were often down played. (Interviewees were 19 yr. to 85 yr. old.) LEARN more about : remittances, Union Bay, Tam Goosen, Port Alberni, Jean Lumb, Chink, footbinding, pretending, crinolines, merchant, joss stick, juk sing, Canadianize, May Mah, chop suey, Teenage Free Labour, and Ann Fong. Section of b/w photographs at center. Short glossary at back. Cond : Whte (and green) paper wrapper with yellow titling. Cover photo shows a well-to-do immigrant family of seven - circa 1910. Volume is clean,square and bright. No names nor marks. Minor wear at points. Spine fine. Almost giftable ! ! QUote (p. 95) : " After taking `Chinese 100' at university, I went to China at the age of nineteen with three friends - a radical step in 1972 when there was next to no information available on China. That was probably when my biggest identity problem resolved ._._._. . ". B/W Photographs (illustrator).…